PCIA PHOTO ALBUM
Here you can find photos and/or links to photos submitted by former Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Iran between 1962 and 1976. They illustrate the Iran as it was then.
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Here are some links to photos submitted by Tom Westheimer.
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Afghanistan mostly Herat but a few from Kaffiristan and Kabul
Trip with Bakhtiari tribe in Iran 1970-72
Old Iranian Slides 1970-72
Iran, Esfahan Zurkaneh 1970-72
Zurkhane info
More Old Iran pictures 1970-72 (probably some overlap with above link)
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Photos submitted by Mike Omassey.
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Mike Omassey served as an auto mechanics teacher at a boy’s school in Rezaiyeh between 1972 and 1973. Rezaiyeh is in the northwest corner of Iran and it the capital of the province of Western Azerbaijan located near Late Urmia. Mike learned and used Farsi in the school but learned and uses Azerbaijan Turkish with locals, especially in the bazaar. Today Rezaiyeh is named Urmia. Omassey did in-country training in Isfahan before he was assigned to Rezaiyeh. His pictures include scenes of Isfahan, Tehran, and Rezaiyeh. Click here to view the SLIDESHOW.
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Dennis Briskin, Arak 1967-69. TEFL 16, has posted photos to the web that can be seen by clicking HERE.
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Dennis also provides us with a beautiful slide show. You can view it HERE.
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Here are photos submitted by Joel Hettger who served at the Tehran University & Tehran Polytechnic in 1970 - 72. Click HERE.
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Photos by Ed Plaisance can be viewed HERE.
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Photo books by Noël Siver who worked as secretary to Arthur Upham Pope in Shiraz from 1968 until his death there in 1969.
In 1969 - 1970 she worked as a librarian at the Asia Institute in Shiraz. Siver has shared eight photo books showing life in Shiraz and her travels in Iran. Each book includes extensive commentary to accompany the pictures.
These books are large PDF files. To download them to your computer, click HERE and select the book(s) you wish to view to begin the download process. You will need to click on the "download" symbol (down arror) to begin the download.
Here are three slide shows submitted by Doug Schermer who served in Semnan, 1966-67.
These slide shows focus on the construction of a school in the village of Chashm, north of Semnan in the Elborz Mountains.
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Chashm Slide Show One was produced in the winter of 1967 as a way to help raise construction funds from students at a high school in Seattle. The technology involved two reel-to-reel tape recorders.
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Chashm Slide Show Two was produced many years later with slides provided by David Garrett, who lived in Chashm during construction.
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Chashm Slide Show Three was produced in 2015 using images sent by cell phone by someone who had visited Chashm.
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ISFAHAN THEN AND NOW
https://youtu.be/I_QrZ1r2zHU
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PERSEPOLIS THEN AND NOW
https://youtu.be/pXPbUIyVF14
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SHIRAZ THEN AND NOW
https://youtu.be/E0XDgt5v1UE
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SEMNAN 1967
https://youtu.be/04OFm74HmMc
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